Iraqi authorities plan to prosecute U.S. troops for massacring several Iraqi civilians after the last soldier involved was spared jail time through a guilty plea. U.S. soldiers murdered 24 Iraqis in 2005 in what came to be called the Haditha massacre. In the years...
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders announced Thursday it would suspend its work the Libyan city of Misrata because it said individuals detained in prisons are being tortured and denied urgent medical care. The group, also known by its French name Medecins...
A top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that the $513 billion defense budget for 2013 cannot be negotiated upwards. Or downwards. Rep. Adam Smith said the scheduled amount is what Congress approved last year as part of the Budget Control...
A prominent member of the Saudi royal family has called for a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, warning of the potential for a nuclear arms race in the region. Prince Turki Al Faisal urged the five permanent U.N. Security Council members to guarantee a...
The European Union embargo on Iranian oil imports that was pushed for aggressively by the U.S. is aimed at reducing the risk of conflict and stressing the need for peace talks, according to British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "This is not a set of actions...
The Obama administration told Israeli officials this week that the U.S. plans to extend for three years $3.8 billion in loan guarantees to Israel. The Israeli government was reportedly worried that the extension would not be granted after several months of delay in...
The Pentagon has a practice called "condolence payments." This is when U.S. commanders pay surviving family members thousands of dollars for every civilian they've killed. After a night operation in 2009 killed 15 civilians, U.S. commanders visited the village and...
Although outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed a deal to step down and is coming to the United States, many in the opposition movement are skeptical that they've seen the last of him. The longtime U.S. ally has faced almost a year of protest against...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he personally held peace talks with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, in a move that both asserted his involvement in his own country's negotiations and reminded important players that there are other insurgent...
The Afghan Taliban said on Saturday they had recruited the Afghan soldier who shot dead four French soldiers a day earlier, seeming to confirm fears that insurgent groups have been infiltrating the NATO-trained Afghan army. Afghan soldiers have been using their...
